SF Citizen ran an interesting article yesterday comparing two city agencies that recently set up new ticket booths: the MTA at Powell and Masonic and rec & parks at the botanical gardens.

It sounds like SFMTA paid $414,000 each for their ticket booths while rec & parks used a prefab shed that can’t have cost more than a couple thousand, and SFMTA ticket sellers earn five times as much as rec & parks ticket sellers.

So if we assume that rec & parks got the best possible deal, MTA is overpaying by around 400% on labor and 20,000% on the buildings. I wonder how typical this is of their projects?

I continue to be amazed at the state of policing in this country. Gascon is sold as such a liberal progressive guy…SF just feels over-run by rampant pseudo-identity politics lately in new appointments from Bridges to Lee to Gascon.